Murder in the Escape Room: Murder Mystery Party Game

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Regular price $42.95
Product details
  • Type Download
  • SKU ESCAPE
  • Age Range 15 to Adult
  • Minimum # of Players 6 Suspects
  • Max Players (Main Game) 10 Suspects
  • Max # Available (Sold Separately) 16 Suspects
  • Difficulty Rating Moderate, 6/10
  • Roles Flex-gender
  • Interactive Extras DIY Escape Room (required) * Access to instructive website
  • Game Duration 2 - 4 Hours Average (Flexible)
  • Setting At a leased vacation home, Noxhelm’s Crossing’s most scandalous residents are invited to an escape room party by a mystery host.
  • Game Format Murder | Guided Clue Mingling | 4 Rounds
  • Vibe & Content Notes Escape Room Urgency * Mystery Host * Friendly Beefs Afoot
  • Publication Date 2007. Last Revised: 2021

An exciting escape-room murder mystery party game set inside a leased vacation home on the outskirts of fog-covered Noxhelm’s Crossing. This suspenseful mystery combines traditional clue mingling with a required DIY escape room packed with puzzles, riddles, cryptic codes, hidden clues, ambitious personalities, scandalous histories, psychological tension, and a deadly investigation.

Important: The host must design and arrange a DIY escape room as part of this game. Your purchase includes access to a detailed instructional website with printable ideas and guidance, but additional planning and setup time are required.

Murder Mystery Party Game Synopsis:

You have received a mysterious invitation to an escape room party. The address belongs to a leased vacation home on the outskirts of fog-covered Noxhelm’s Crossing, so the identity of the host remains unknown. You recognize everyone on the guest list, but you have no idea who brought this ambitious and scandalous group together.

According to the invitation, the guests must work as a team to escape before time runs out. You have always wanted to challenge yourself inside a room filled with puzzles, riddles, hidden clues, and cryptic codes. However, placing so many powerful personalities together in an intense and confined situation could have deadly consequences.

Nevertheless, you have never been one to turn down a thrilling challenge. You have accepted the invitation—and this is where your story begins.

Expand the Murder Mystery Party Game:
  • Main Game: 10 unique suspect characters
    • Combines traditional clue mingling with a required DIY escape room.
  • Expansion Pack #1: 6 additional unique suspect characters
    • Sold separately.
    • Includes 6 optional, gender-flexible roles.
    • The expansion characters may be added in any combination.
    • You do not need to use every optional main-game character before adding expansion roles.

All 16 suspect roles are unique characters. This game does not include duplicate expandable team roles.

Important: The DIY escape room is a required part of the storyline. The download includes access to an instructional website, but the host must select, prepare, and arrange the escape room puzzles and clues before the party.

This game uses a victim announcement page instead of a victim sign or victim envelope.

Host Character List, Game Preview & Free Resources

This game is licensed for personal, private use only. If you plan to use it for any commercial purpose, public event, business, organization, school, fundraiser, church, promotional activity, paid event, or any use that generates revenue or provides a commercial benefit, you must purchase a Commercial License.

Purchase Commercial License
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Valerie
Worth the extra effort!

This was my third time hosting a mystery party, and it was definitely the most work, but well worth the extra effort. I held it for 13 people (used the expansion pack), so it was a larger group. Because of the bigger group I had to make the escape room puzzles with varying degrees of difficulty, but it was a huge success! You need a lot of extra time and attention to detail to plan it, so wait to do this one until you have a couple of easier parties under your belt first. Overall, it was great!

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Mel
Fun but more work on host

My daughter and her friends have done several murder mysteries from My Mystery Party. They are lots of fun and easy to host. When we picked the Escape Room, I assumed it would again require minimal planning. However, the escape room portion is not scripted and requires quite a bit more work. It was fun and added a nice twist but it definitely takes more planning and set up (we spent several hours planning and setting up the escape room). The murder mystery portion is shortened a bit since you have the added escape room portion. All in all - very fun but a lot more work to host!

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Jana
So much fun!

This was so fun. It was better than any other we have played. The escape room added such a great excitement. It was not hard at all to set up. I wish they had more of these!!

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Anonymous
Unique and fun

I had a blast deciding on the escape room puzzles!

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Amy
Escape room was good. Murder mystery short

The escape room was fun but the murder mystery part seemed short, if we didn’t have the escape room we would’ve finished in about 15 minutes.

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Shelly Dentler
So much fun!!

What a great night! There were yet 6 of us but it was so much fun! The instructions were easy to follow and there were some great ideas for the escape room. I would absolutely recommend this escape room Murder mystery dinner! Epic!

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Monica
Great way to spend an evening with friends!

We used the download version of this game, and it has everything we needed to have a great party. None of us had done one before, so it was new to all of us, but the instructions really walked us through and made for a wonderful time with friends!

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Anonymous
Lots of Fun!

We had a group of 8 players, 6 of them were 13 year old girls. None of us had done a murder mystery party before so we didn't know what to expect. Everyone had a great time. Mingling at the beginning of each round took us a bit of time, but we ended up sharing as a group and it didn't ruin anything.

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Anonymous
A great birthday party for a teen!

I'm not sure who had more fun with this--my 15-year old daughter and her friends or me! I had a blast "constructing" the Escape Room portion of this party, and the mystery portion was well laid-out and easy to manage. We're looking for another excuse to have another party, and we'll definitely use mymysteryparty.com again.

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Wanda
well prepared kit (download version)

The kit gave enough information to prepare your own escape room, and also provided suggestion so that if you are creative you can add your own touches to the escape room. The murder mystery posed a challenge to many guest, although not elusive to all. One person was able to figure out the 'whodunnit' with the clues provided. I would strongly consider buying from this company again if in need of a murder mystery.

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Jeff
Fantastic party!

We had an excellent time playing this with an escape room!

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Christy
Unique and exciting evening!

As a long time customer of this company, I can say that this game was full of excitement. I spent a bit of time creating my DIY escape room and went over the top (but the instruction site has a ton of easier options - I'm just crazy like that) and my guests were bummed it was over. Combining a murder mystery and escape room was the best.

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Lauri Muller
We had a blast!

I purchased this Mystery Dinner and hosted it with my work team. The Escape Room aspect of the plot allowed us an opportunity to engage in team building challenges. Everyone had a great time!